Toy animal.



No. 846,009. PATENTED-MAR. 5, 1907. L. 5.. COLEMAN & W. H. 'SPAKE.

TOY ANIMAL. APPLIOATION FILED 00w. 9, 1906.

W/YWESSES:

A TTQR/VE VS 7 UNITED ,s'rA rns PATENT I OFFICE.

Luc us nooLEMAN AND WILLI M H. sPAKE, OF ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA;

SAID COLEMAN AS SIGNOR TO SAID SPAKE.-

TOY ANIMAL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

'Patented March 5, 1907.

Application filed October 9, 1906. Serial No. 338,178.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, LUOIUS E. COLEMAN and WILLIAM H. SPAKE, citizens of the United States, residing at Anaheim; in the county of Orange and State of California, have invented 'a new and useful Toy Animal, of which the with a wheel eccentrically mounted so that the rear portion of the toy will have an accelerated vertical reciprocatory movement,

while the forward portion of the toy will have but slight vertical movement. The body of the toy preferably represents a rabbit, the movements of which while running are substantially the same as those above indicated that is to say, the whole body of the animal does not rise and fall simultaneously, as that of ahorseor dog while running, but the vertical movement of the rear portion of the animal is greatly in excess of the vertical movement of the forward portion thereof. I

In the accompanying drawing the figure is a side elevation of the toy with parts broken away and parts in section.

The representation of the body of the animal l is provided with a curved or rocker base 2. The shaft 3 passes transversely through the forward portion of the figure, and ,the wheel 4 is concentrically mounted upon' the said shaft 3 and projects a slight distance below the curved edge 2. The shaft 5 passes transversely through the rear portion of the figure of the animal, and the wheel is eccentrically mounted upon the said shaft 5. Said wheel 6 also projects below the curved edge 2 of the figure. The wheels 4 and 6 are preferably concealed from view vided at its lower end with the bifurcations 8, which embrace the figure 1 and which are 1 attached to the shaft 3.

"From the foregoing description it is obvious that as the figure is trundled over the within the figure 1. The push-rod 7 is proground the rear end of the figure by reason of the eccentric wheels 6 will be given an accelerated vertical reciprocatory movement, while the forward end of the figure by reason of the concentric wheel 4 will be devoid of such movement to a perce tible degree. Thus the movements of a rabbit while running will be closely imitated.

Having described the invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A toy comprising a figure, a concentrically-jourrraled wheel supporting the forward portion of the figure, an eccentrically-journaled wheel supporting the rear portion of the figure and means for trundling the figure.

2. A toy comprising a figure having a longitudinally-curved base, a wheel concentrically journaled and supporting the forward portion of the figure, a wheel eccentrically journaled and supporting the rear portion of the figure'and means for trundling the figure.

3. A toy comprising a figure, a concentrically-journaled wheel supporting the forward end of the figure, an eccentrically-journaled wheel supporting the rear portion of the figure and a ush-rod pivotally attached to the figure in a inement with the center of the concentrically-j ournaled wheel.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own we have hereto afiixed oursignatures in the presence of two witnesses.

LUCIUS E. COLEMAN. WILLIAM H. SPAKE.

-Witnesses:

- E. E. KEEoH.

A. N. ZERMAN. 

